Clean Handbags & Purses

How to Use Bleach on a Burberry Bag

While you can clean a Burberry leather bag with just a bit of soap, water and a washcloth, cleaning a Burberry canvas or fabric bag is a different thing altogether. Since its surface is rougher and not so smooth and shiny, it can be difficult to...

What Household Cleaner Can I Use for a Jacquard Coach Bag?

A Coach Jacquard handbag makes a statement that you're a powerful woman with the taste for quality. Protect that image by cleaning your handbag when it's dirty, using common household cleaners to save cash. These cleaners should help you remove...

The Best Way to Clean A Leather Purse

What's a new outfit without hot-off-the-runway shoes and an oversized leather bag to sweeten the deal? You put it all together and now you want to keep it that way. Your fancy leather purse needs just as much attention as the rest of your wardrobe...

How Should I Clean My Bruce Makowsky Handbags?

Bruce Makowsky handbags are renowned for their soft, supple leather and fashion-forward designs. With jazzy animal print linings and great details, a B. Makowsky handbag is one you'll want to care for. But even with the best of treatment, your...

How to Clean a Paper Purse

While not exactly built for lugging around your valuables, paper purses are a cute and fashionable accessory. A far cry from your fave cow-skinned clutch, paper purses are a combination of eye-catching paper, super sticky glue and adorable accents...

How to Take Care of and Clean Lucite Purses

What? A plastic purse? Now sought after by collectors, Lucite purses were a big hit when they hit the market back in the 1930s. In fact, back then if you couldn't afford a leather handbag, a Lucite purse was the next best thing. For anyone who...

How Do I Clean a Dooney & Bourke Handbag?

The bottom line is that if you leave the house with a handbag (and that's usually the point), it can and will get dirty. Regular use takes its toll, and very little can be done to prevent your bag's inevitable fate. At some point, you're going...

How to Clean Gucci Fabric Handbags

Gucci is known for its classic designs and timeless, monogrammed styles, and the fabric used to make them is built to last. With proper care, a Gucci handbag can last a lifetime. The care includes cleaning so stains and dirt are never allowed to...

How to Clean Prada Canvas Handbags

Canvas on its own is fussy enough to clean -- too much water can cause the bag to distort or leach out color. Add a fancy designer label such as Prada to the mix and what's a girl to do? Handbags get dirty and when your fave Prada canvas looks...

How to Wash a Vera Bradley Purse

Vera Bradley is the name brand of a line of quilted fabric handbags, luggage and even diaper bags. From totes to cross-body and small drawstring purses, these bags are available in a lot of girly, far-out prints. The founders had the idea for the...

How to Clean Red Dye From a Burberry Bag

Accidents happen, and sometimes no matter how careful you are with a designer purse like Burberry, life throws you a lemon. If you get ink or other red dye stains on your purse, you may or may not be able to get the stain out completely, but you...

How to Get an Oily Stain Off of a Leather Purse

Getting oil on your not-so-cheap leather purse is enough to send you into a panic. Whether your tanning oil leaked on the inside, or you sat your purse on the counter right on top of leftover olive oil from dinner, it's no big secret what a mess...

How to Clean a Michael Kors Purse

A Michael Kors purse on your arm speaks to your sense of style -- but it's impossible to protect a purse from all the cups of coffee, rainstorms and dirt in the world. It's a shame, because the leather and suede that make up most Michael Kors bags...

How to Clean a Purse Lining

Your poor purse's lining can come into contact with all kinds of questionable materials, and they can leave marks. Lipstick, other makeup and even food stains often adorn bag linings. Of course, you can't have a dirty liner on your fancy purse, so...

How to Clean Velour Purses

Your new velour purse is pretty, stylish and oh-so-soft, until dirt and stains begin to appear. Then your handbag just looks dingy and not so fashionable after all. Velour is most often made of a cotton jersey knit, which isn't terribly difficult...